Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho.
Summary: High school fic, set in America to avoid complications. After his mother dies Hiei and his sister Yukina go to live with their aunt Atsuko and cousin Yusuke. There he goes to school with his cousin and meets a young mysterious red-head who seems to be the school's heart-throb.
Pairings: Kurama x Hiei, Yusuke x Keiko, Kuwabara x Yukina, maybe more.

Living Off Blood...

Prologue:
Ghost Pale

There's a reason why there are so few ways to deal with a dead body. Why do you think that people cremate or bury their loved ones? To get rid of them. To forget that they were ever alive. They do this so that way they won't have to hurt anymore. They can forget the body in some dirt pile several miles off or put them in a pretty vase on the mantle to be overlooked and collect dust. Because no one wanted to look at them anymore.

Why were dead bodies so scary to people? Because they knew that would be their fate someday and when you see a dead body...you think that could be me. That could be me in 5 years, or 5 months, or 5 weeks, or 5 days, or...tomorrow, or...today. That could be me in 5 minutes. Course the fact of the matter is that you don't know when you're going to die and that's the only reason why we keep on living. That's why we go to work or school or the grocery store. Because we don't know there will be a masked gunman that wants to rob the bank that day. To tell the truth just about everything that happens in this world is just one big coincidence. That's why dead bodies are so horrible. Because that's the only thing we're sure off. That we will all be dead bodies someday. That's why people don't want to see them.

Course who can really blame them? Dead bodies are so...dead. You don't want to see them. The eyes don't shine anymore. The skin goes ghost pale and cold. We live off blood and therefore we do not want to see the bloodless. We do not want to see what we will all someday become. Yet I find it odd that some people find it so hard to admit that someone is dead. Course once you see the body any form of denial is hard. I stood there wondering why this woman's body was cold and pale and...dead.

She had been so healthy and had been so good. She had gone to church every Sunday and Wednesday. She had asked to be saved and had been baptized. She was a teacher for Special Ed. students and gave all sorts of things to charity. She had never drunk, done drugs, and it surprised people to hear she had two children. She had been a happily married woman until a couple of years ago when her husband died. She had been beautiful and friendly and had never broken the law. I'd be surprised if she had ever even told a lie...so why was this woman dead?

Why was Hina Retsu dead?

Why was my mother dead?

END PROLOGUE

OKAY this is what you get for listening to Duvet and Wait & Bleed all day long whilst being in a morbid mood. I wrote that for a reason I don't know why. Knowing it was good (and morbid) I decided to keep and then was like FANFIC! So therefore here is a new fanfic that hopefully my Sensei will keep me from screwing up. (Knows she'll screw it up with or with out Rei-pan's help)